Sentences with phrase «less legal work»

He doesn't think there will be less legal work or less legal services, but the same number of attorneys will not be needed on U.S. soil.

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The problem: AI can do much of the legal work in less time.

Builders say they make sure their contractors are legal to work, but they have less control over the subcontractors who often move from site to site.

British supermarket chain Tesco is facing legal claims that it is paying women less than men for work of equal value, in a case that lawyers estimate could ultimately cost it as much as 4 billion pounds ($ 5.6 billion) in compensation payments.

Dear I am not working or aware of the laws of legal or sharia systems but as a Muslim know that cursing all that is considered holy can bring a whole lot of trouble for Muslim or not Muslim specially if there were many witnesses against you, said tobe not less than two men or four women.

I work for a small law firm of less than 50 employees as a legal assistant.

It's also necessary to continue modernising the civil justice system to work more effectively for claimants so less money is swallowed up by the legal process.»

In the wake of a less - than - helpful (from a minor party perspective) legal decision, the WFP has been working overtime this fall to get people to vote on its line, tapping well - known New Yokers — from Cynthia Nixon and Pete Seeger to Matt Damon and Gloria Steinem — to record videos and robocalls urging people to vote Row E.

ALBANY — Last year, lawmakers brought in money from outside legal work, lottery winnings and even an appearance in a Jennifer Lopez movie, but they appeared to earn less in outside income than in the past, according to legislators» financial disclosure forms.

Based on DeJong's review, that research supports what earlier work had shown: Since the legal drinking age was set at 21, young people have been drinking less and are less likely to get into drunk - driving crashes.

Rick's business model does have some flat - out illegal elements, which become important to resolving matters near the end of the film, but it's ironic how those illegal activities do far less harm to ordinary people — even providing work for some of Dennis» friends — than the legal ones.

He lives above the store, «works» in the store, and has a secret studio in the basement for various things (restorations mainly, but also some things less... legal in nature).

The smaller a debt is, the less likely it is that the creditors will sue a person because there's less motivation for the debt collection company to do the extra work required to pursue legal action.

The heavy hand of the fossil fuel industry works mostly in legal ways such as the «I'm an Energy Voter» campaign in the U.S. Failure of executive and legislative branches to deal with climate change makes it essential for courts, less subject to pressure and bribery from special financial interests, to step in and protect young people, as they did minorities in the case of civil rights.

He is convinced that the legal system would work better if attorneys thought more like trial lawyers and less like litigators.

This may be less true in some of the solicitor's practices where technology has made document production more efficient and where process efficiencies can be adopted in routine aspects of legal work where there is sufficient volume.

In Canada, most medium - to large - sized law firms depend on commercial legal work, rather than litigation, and hence there is much less emphasis here on eDiscovery.

Assuming there is any way for human lawyers to compete with an artificial brain the size of a planet (much less one on every desktop), legal work will likely be different.

On the surface, the economics are fairly straightforward — less activity on administrative and other routine non-billable tasks will give you more time to do legal work (or, you know, work towards a balanced life).

Again, pressure is on large firms to cut legal costs and become more efficient with less time and money to work with.

I work alongside partners who have come to the legal professional both traditionally and via less conventional career paths, such as through working in IT first, making for a well - rounded approach to running the firm.

Despite flexible working being enshrined in law for over 20 years (under section 80F of the Employment Rights Act in 1996), it is only recently that it has become less of a «nice to have» and more deeply engrained in the legal sector.

The article notes that both Riverview Law and BLP Legal Risk Consultancy, an offshoot of UK law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, are seeking to develop legal AI tool «to ensure that lawyers spend less time understanding what is, in effect, administrative work and more time using their legal skills to offer clients high - level analysis and advice.&rLegal Risk Consultancy, an offshoot of UK law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner, are seeking to develop legal AI tool «to ensure that lawyers spend less time understanding what is, in effect, administrative work and more time using their legal skills to offer clients high - level analysis and advice.&rlegal AI tool «to ensure that lawyers spend less time understanding what is, in effect, administrative work and more time using their legal skills to offer clients high - level analysis and advice.&rlegal skills to offer clients high - level analysis and advice.»

While the gold standard of volunteering is full representation for the less fortunate, many attorneys also offer free legal advice, work with local charities drafting contracts or represent clients at a reduced cost.

The legal profession is less than a trailblazer in terms of flexible working practices.

The closed loop argument that using alternative legal services providers results in lesser quality work product is not true anymore.

The «more for less» challenge that corporate clients face is often resolved by building internal legal teams to avoid sending work to law firms, or by disaggregating legal work among different, non-law firm players in the marketplace.

Certainly since the Great Recession and possibly a little before, businesses have been relying less on outside counsel and using in - house attorneys more to work on legal matters.

Themis Solutions Inc and gUnify provide a unified communications solution for legal services that promises less work, more revenue, and a better user experience

We have been delighted to once again join CMS to help run a workshop for students spending a week at the firm as part of PRIME, an alliance of law firms and legal departments, which gives school - age students from less privileged backgrounds access to quality work experience in the legal sector.

Having worked for a decade as a registered nurse prior to her legal career, Ms. McNeill brings a talent for healing in her approaches to dispute resolution and her service to the less fortunate.

In addition, the program supports inter-curricular faculty work by having traditional «doctrinal» faculty teach LA&W while at the same time traditional «legal writing» faculty teach a doctrinal course, with members of both groups working together in regularly scheduled teaching meetings and in less formal settings.

While other industries that have been more exposed to non-traditional ways of working see the trend as an opportunity to be more agile and adaptable, the legal industry sees only a loss of control — of data, of lawyers who are spending less time in the office, and of their client relationships as they become more focused on the individual legal professional rather than the reputation of the firm.

We take the hard work out of legal research so you can spend less time in the library and more time handling your cases and clients.

There are fewer opportunities than ever because there is less work and that is largely, but not exclusively, the result of the crisis in legal aid.

Dean John Corkery of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago said that law firms would like to see more (rather than less) emphasis on legal writing, training to improve analytical skills, and training that would require lawyers to work together well.

About 12,000, or more than half of all private practitioners in Ontario, work in firms with five lawyers or fewer, while 86 per cent of all firms in the province contain five lawyers or less, Pawlitza said, noting they are also responsible for almost all legal services in languages other than English.

Is a Legal - Aid - style support office cheaper because its people are paid less than junior lawyers and paralegals working for firms?

HAMALENGWA — Findings of Professional Misconduct — While representing a difficult client who was charged with first degree murder, the Lawyer was eligible to bill the Ministry of the Attorney General for fees and disbursements pursuant to a Fisher order — The Lawyer's accounting, billing and docketing systems were deplorable and bore no relationship to his billings to the Ministry — The Lawyer engaged in professional misconduct by billing the Ministry for attendances at court when he had not attended or attended for less time than he claimed; overbilling for legal research; billing for services that were not properly billable as legal services; overbilling for student assistance disbursements he had not incurred; overbilling for fees and disbursements that were not fair and reasonable; and submitting a document to the Ministry purporting to be an invoice from a student working under his direction when the invoice was not prepared by the student and the services were not rendered as described in the document.

No less a source than Wikipedia provides this capsule of Sarhan's legal work:

At the same time, there is a trend for many corporate legal departments to send less work out the door, building, instead, upon their in - house staff.

No regard for globalisation, commoditization, technology, AI... Most law professors are not remotely interested in this stuff... So many graduates in the UK are ill - prepared for the everyday legal work of today... still less for tomorrow.

This partner joked about the language about legal project management they used in their RFP response and how they had won the work, despite not actually having any LPM efforts underway, much less successful implementation at any level.

This has included, for instance, our work with PRIME, an alliance of law firms and legal departments, which gives school - age students from less privileged backgrounds access to quality work experience in the legal sector.

When less effort and less time is required to perform legal work, the logical result is that costs will go down, and the value for clients will go up.

Crown lawyers in three provinces are now able to carry out pro bono work with far less exposure to legal claims and less risk of running into conflicts of interest.

The use of legal technology will definitely make forward - thinking lawyers «space explorers» but for some professionals, implementing tech means less work for lawyers.

Having decided that most of his lawyers aren't ready for a full dose of legal project management, Keith is thinking of other ways his firm can do the work in less time, hopefully surpassing client expectations.

Of the respondents to our survey who were working in legal work 50 % were earning between less than # 20,000 and 5 % were earning less than # 10,000 per year.

The sooner you get us working on your case, the easier it will be to collect information about the accident and advise you about your legal rights — and you can worry less about the legal ramifications of your claim and work toward healing instead.